grondilu

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by grondilu 10y ago
People escape reality when reality sucks. I'm not sure without technology their lives would be much better. Less isolated? Maybe, but also possibly not for the best. Isn't no company is better than bad company? I mean nowadays
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by grondilu 10y ago
Frankly I don't think sex robots will be worse than pornography or prostitution.
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by grondilu 10y ago
> People colonizing the New World from Europe didn't plan on coming right back, never to voyage again. I'm tired of this comparison with the American continent. I've expressed my opinion about it before[1], but I guess I s
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by grondilu 10y ago
> Yet we persist in exploring, not because these things are easy, but because they are hard. That's a reason to go, not to stay. We like the challenge of going where nobody ever went before, but we almost always come back. When a
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by grondilu 10y ago
Well you could do that with any packet on the network, couldn't you? It's not specific to bitcoin. The transaction itself has no IP either.
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by grondilu 10y ago
There are no IPs in the blockchain, are there?
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by grondilu 10y ago
I'm always surprised how people seem to focus on bitcoin's alleged anonymity. It was quite clear from the beginning that bitcoin is not completely anonymous, or rather that it is not more anonymous than internet itself is. Just
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by grondilu 10y ago
I can confirm it does not quite follow the rules. In my game it castled to escape a check, which is forbidden.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Artificial heart designers may thus consider doing something to simulate the noise and vibration of a heart beat, to prevent any awkwardness after the transplant.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Why is that on Hacker News?
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by grondilu 10y ago
Being predictable does not mean you have no free will. I mean, ever heard of compatibilism ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
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by grondilu 10y ago
Well, that only shows that this oracle can be improved. It should be able to recognize that pattern from a well known transcendental number.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Yesterday I learnt that cats have such efficient kidneys that they can re-hydrate by drinking sea water. I wonder what would happen if an artificial kidney was capable of doing that.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Not the concept itself, but the aforementioned simple and clear definition.
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by grondilu 10y ago
That conception of what a species is has been my understanding as well for a long time. It's a very simple and clear concept but apparently biologists have given up on it for various reasons. There's actually a whole wikipedia a
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by grondilu 10y ago
Fun fact : there was a "The Good Wife" episode years ago in which this is issue was basically discussed in court. There the judge ruled bitcoin as a currency after about thirty seconds. https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by grondilu 10y ago
Musk is doing several things apart from launching rockets. For instance he's trying to make electric cars more common and he has quite some success. His solar ventures is less convincing, though.
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by grondilu 10y ago
IIRC they plan on re-using one of the landed first stages at the end of the year, but they did not give any precise date or mission.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Note sure in what way you think Esperanto is a "pure" language. Most of its words are derived from other languages.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Since it's supposed to replace current welfare, chances are there are people who would get less money with the UBI than what they currently get. In that case for them that will indeed feel like a cut (pun intended) And if everybody
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by grondilu 10y ago
The article made me realize an argument I've never thought of before against the UBI as a replacement for current welfare system : it's a Procrustean bed.
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by grondilu 10y ago
As you said that's a mentality that exists already among many people. It's more of a political issue than a technological one. I personally believe that smart people don't feel any need to get privileges of any kind, since t
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by grondilu 10y ago
Even if the technique for synthesizing a human genome was available literally tomorrow, it would still take a few decades for the first genetically synthesized human to be born, to grow up and to get an education before it becomes useful to
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by grondilu 10y ago
People are already different in terms of capabilities. Yet they are equals in terms of rights , and there is no reason that should change, even with this kind of things.
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by grondilu 10y ago
Why focusing so early on a human target? Animals and plants physiology is still capable of doing things we're not nearly capable of reproducing in laboratory. Plants and insects production are still used in pharmacology so it seems to
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by grondilu 10y ago
Only tangentially related, but why can't spelling check software automatically figure out which language I'm typing in? I write mostly in English but sometimes I write in French or in a mix of both languages and I usually struggl
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by grondilu 10y ago
I've found the application to multi-screens setups more exciting.
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by grondilu 10y ago
I'm not sure Stephane Israël's warning is directed at governments. It's more of a warning call for all European industrials who should increase their efforts to prepare for the present and upcoming US competition. I mean it&
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by grondilu 10y ago
I did not go through the paywall either, I only just read what you probably did.
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by grondilu 10y ago
This success was unexpected. That means that they can recover a stage from a higher speed than previously thought. Does that mean that the recovery of the second stage from LEO may actually be feasible?

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